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Introduction to R for Geospatial Data
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Add split-apply-combine explanation to dplyr episode #72

Open lcsanford opened 4 years ago

lcsanford commented 4 years ago

In previous experience teaching dplyr I have found that using Hadley Wickham's split-apply-combine language has helped students understand the power of dplyr, and might make some of the later exercises (and diagrams) easier to understand.

lachlandeer commented 4 years ago

@lcsanford - Thanks for the suggestion. I'll leave this as an open issue to bve worked on

albhasan commented 9 months ago

plyr is now a retired package. The recommended replacement package is purrr now.

Hadley Wickham's book "R for data science" has a section on purrr's map functions, which, I believe, follow the split-apply-combine pattern.

However, I think @lcsanford's suggestion fits better to a software lesson rather than an introductory data lesson on geospatial data.